Whitley Zoé

Dr. Zoé Whitley is Director of the non-profit Chisenhale Gallery in London. She co-curated the acclaimed Tate Modern exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power and its subsequent international tour (2017-2020). Whitley has distinguished herself as a curator working in UK institutions on exhibitions, collections research and public programming (as curator of the British Council’s 2019 British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; 2014-2019 Tate Modern; 2013-2015 Tate Britain; 2003-2013 V&A). Alongside exhibition catalogues and artist monographs, Zoé writes for all reading ages including children’s titles Meet the Artist: Frank Bowling; Meet the Artist: Sophie Taeuber-Arp; and serving as consultant for the award-winning Black Artists Shaping the World (Thames & Hudson). Zoé is the editor of the major monograph on Barkley L. Hendricks, solid! (Skira, 2023) and the Alserkal Arts Foundation’s public art commission curator (2024). 

She serves as a Trustee of the Teiger Foundation and Sir John Soane’s Museum. Whitley is also a member of the London Mayor’s Commission on Diversity in the Public Realm.